Expanded Huntington Feels Newly Vibrant Yet Familiar

Things are both changing and staying (mostly) the same at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, where several new spaces are transforming visitors’ experience of the institution. “I am extremely keen that people shouldn’t think the Huntington has only two paintings, (Lawrence’s) ‘Pinkie’ and (Gainsborough’s) ‘The Blue Boy,'” said John Murdoch, director of art collections at the Huntington. “There is a terrible danger if you’ve got world-famous paintings that people will say, ‘I’ve seen that. I don’t need to go there again.'”